Here's an excellent video from someone who did some ground work with a variety of mounts to see how much the GoPro and an aftermarket floaty can float. Note how some are oriented in the water making them harder to spot too.

rightguard wrote:Hey Poacher... can we some other pics of that back mount? I've been wanting to try one of these.

This is all I have on file. I can shoot you a better pic of the mount if you want. The parts are from RAM mounts. They cost about $50 but it's cool because you can easily change the angle with a big thumb screw on the pivot ball. I have an additional 18" section that will swap onto the end to have a 36" total boom for more field of view. RAM makes a specific adapter for the Go Pro.

zerogee_ca wrote:Here's an excellent video from someone who did some ground work with a variety of mounts to see how much the GoPro and an aftermarket floaty can float. Note how some are oriented in the water making them harder to spot too.

Thanks for the tip. I will have to check the floaty backpack in the tub and maybe add some extra floatation. I have also had the same problem with cameras switching off from time to time. After pulling the battery out and then back in all good. What is the fix for this?

Toby wrote:...Why do you use the picture setting?
To save battery?
Otherwise just do a video and then take a screenshot.
Will be about 1mb if full sized...enough for the web...

The picture setting takes really nice stills. Much better quality than a screenshot. Gives you the option to crop and such as well.
Additionally, some folks have told me that if you leave the camera in picture mode (even when not recording, but powered on) it consumes less power than when in video mode. This has been the case in my tests. My theory is that the camera just keeps running the sensor in whatever mode you have it in, it just doesn't write it to flash unless you're recording.

Anyway, with the remote, YES, it is very convenient to switch between stills and video mode. And of course power it off when you are not doing anything interesting to conserve the fragile battery life of the thing.

Regarding the floaty backpack not floating the unit, I had read when I purchased my HERO3 that it won't float much other than the camera. Since most people have the battery, screen or other accessories attached that is kind of useless. They should make a bigger float.

What setting do you have the pictures set to? Is it on timer to take a pic every 30 secs or every minute? Do you think the picture quality is different to screen shots of vid? Lastly where do you store the remote when kiting.. Just curious as I've just purchased my hero3 black & line mount/strut mount... Didn't want to start recording before drift launching my kite. I'm guessing you store the remote up your wetty sleeve maybe.